This is the information page about the shipwreck Pacific (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 55.232 N,1 30.502 E (52.795983333333, 1.6965)

 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

 

1. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Artemisia
9. Asteria
10. Ayrshire (possibly)
11. Barrhill
12. Bertha
13. Birtley
14. Boulderpool (after part)
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Camilla weston
18. Cantabria (probably)
19. Cardanel
20. Clan morrison
21. Clansman (possibly)
22. Continental (possibly)
23. Corchester
24. Corduff
25. Corea
26. Courier (probably)
27. Duncarron
28. Efos
29. Eikhaug
30. Empress
31. Ems
32. Ethel
33. Friesland
34. Fulgens
35. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
36. Gardenia
37. Georgia (for'd part)
38. Georgia (stern section)
39. Glen derry (probably)
40. Granta
41. Hauxley (possibly)
42. Hms agate
43. Hms arley
44. Hms cantatrice
45. Hms caroline moller
46. Hms cloughton wyke
47. Hms dhoon (probably)
48. Hms dungeness
49. Hms force
50. Hms francolin
51. Hms kylemore
52. Hms nogi
53. Hms tonbridge
54. Hms vortigern
55. Hms washington (probably)
56. Hms william stephen
57. Hmsm c 11
58. Homefire
59. I t l anna b
60. Ilse
61. Jessie maersk
62. Jevington court
63. Kenton
64. Keymun
65. King egbert
66. Lanterna (probably)
67. Leelite
68. Londoner (probably)
69. Marden
70. Marsworth
71. Meriones
72. Minorca
73. Murdoch (probably)
74. Norman queen
75. Oakgrove
76. Ole bull
77. Osprey
78. Ottar jarl
79. Otter
80. Oxshott (possibly)
81. Pacific (possibly)
82. Pacific (possibly)
83. Pegrix
84. Pontfield (forepart)
85. Prima
86. Regain
87. Rimac
88. Rose marie
89. Salvus ii
90. Seagull
91. Seaham
92. Sheaf water
93. Sitona
94. St mark
95. Tayjack 1 (part of)
96. Tayjack 1 (part of)
97. Tayjack 1 (part of)
98. Teddington
99. Thursonian
100. Trelissick
101. Tyneford
102. Upminster
103. Varoy
104. Vigo
105. Viola (possibly)
106. Walkure
107. War valley
108. Welholme (possibly)
109. Western mist (possibly)
110. Westland
111. Whintown (possibly)
112. Winhill or whinhill
113. Xanthe

 

Name: PACIFIC (POSSIBLY)

Length 98.8 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 2816 ton
Load: coal

Cause: 8.2.43 left sunderland for london in convoy which became scattered in bad weather on 8.2.43. pacific and two other ships disappeared.

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 18 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H0243/39 29.11.45 UNKNOWN LOCATED 350.25 DEG 6.10M FROM HAPPISBURGH LTHO. THOUGHT TO BE PACIFIC. (CINC NORE, 28.11.45) H0243/39 7.2.46 INS AS DW.

- NM 448/46 4.3.46 G CON WK BUOY, GPFL(3)G 10 SEC CLOSE NE. (THNM 25/46).

- NM 775/46. 27.7.48 SWEPT CLEAR 31 FT, FOUL 32 FT IN 66 FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 27.7.48). 27.6.49 EXAM'D IN 525511N, 013034E. OROPESA SWEEP AFTER DISPERSAL CLEAR 48 FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 51 IN GEN DEPTH 55 FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 26.6.49). AMEND TO WK 8FMS.

- NM 1599/49. 14.3.73 AMEND TO WK 14MTRS. NC 106. 29.11.77 AMEND TO SW 14MTRS. NE 106. H1952/80 26.1.83 EXAM'D 14.7.82 IN 525513N, 013037E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 15.6 IN GEN DEPTHS 17.5 TO 18.5MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 1MTR, LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 40MTRS. LYING N/S, BROKEN UP AND APPARENTLY SMALL. (SOISS, HI 22). BR STD. SEP 2015/000041896 22.5.15 EXAM'D 18.10.14 IN 5255.232N, 0130.502E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 17.02MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1MTR, EXTENDS 25MTRS TOWARDS 130 DEGREES. LENGTH 38MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS, HT 0.8MTRS. LIES 000/180 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. BROKEN UP. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI1427). AMEND DW 17.0MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP WRECKAGE

Position: 52 55.232 N,1 30.502 E

 

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